MAHLER, Gustav 1860-1911Erste Symphonie in D dur; Zweite Symphonie in C Moll; Dritte Symphonie in D Moll; Vierte Symphonie in G Dur. [Study scores] Wien... Leipzig: Universal-Edition [PN 6], 1906. 1f. (title), 3-171, [1] (blank) pp.The first edition of the full score was published by Weinberger in Vienna in 1898; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions replace Weinberger's plate number with the Universal number U.E. 2931. "The four-movement version in which the symphony is now known remains rich in imagery and technical diversity. In the opening bars Mahler uses the extraordinary orchestral effect of a unison A over seven octaves in the strings, all except the lowest basses playing harmonics, 'Wie ein Naturlaut' ('Like a sound of nature'); a kind of virtual-reality effect is created by three offstage trumpets (the first two directed to be placed initially 'in the very far distance'), as if to stress a physical separation between the platform orchestra as Nature, with its explicitly marked cuckoo calls, and the realm of human activity. Mahler characteristically consigned to the silence between the second and third movements the disillusioning dramatic catastrophe, figured as the tragic love experience which separates the symphony's protagonist, like the wayfarer of the song cycle, from the comforts of youthful illusion. What follows is the most experimental of the symphony's four movements: an ironic funeral march based on the children's round Bruder Martin ('Frère Jacques'), whose trio-like interpolations include one of Mahler's most explicit evocations of the Bohemian street musicians encountered in his childhood; the pungent, chromatically inflected orchestral timbre is appropriately enriched (at a point marked 'Mit Parodie') with a percussion part for a bass drum with Turkish cymbals attached, to be played by a single musician. Only in the symphony's finale does Mahler mobilize all the resources of the post-Wagnerian orchestra in a large-scale dramatic narrative. Daemonic forces and heroic aspiration are colourfully symbolized in a movement whose expressive poles are represented on the one hand by the delicately-nuanced 'Gesang' theme that functions as a contrasting second subject, on the other by a triumphal march, whose final statement follows a cyclic flashback to the opening of the first movement (on whose falling 4ths it is based). Already, at the end of this work, Mahler was experimenting with ways of intensifying available techniques for creating an overwhelming volume of sound. He suggests in the score that the expanded horn section (he seems to have envisaged at least nine players at this point) should stand up, bells raised, in order to surmount the rest of the orchestral tutti with their peroration." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.With:Zweite Symphonie in C Moll... (nur für Privatgebrauch). Wien... Leipzig: Universal-Edition [without PN], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-209, [i] (blank) pp. With "In die 'Universal-Edition' aufgenommen" to title followed by listing of agents in Budapest, Pozsony (Bratislava), Leipzig, and London. The first edition of the full score was published by Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1899; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions use the original plates but add the plate number U.E. 2933."A symphonic cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra in which the progression from tension to resolution is reinterpreted as a narrative of apocalypse and subsequent redemption (the 'Resurrection' of the symphony's subsequent unofficial subtitle). Judeo-Christian mythology supplied certain of its details, but reinterpreted and even subverted in a striking manner. If Mahler's programmatic justification of his generically diverse suite of movements extended established 19th-century precedents, the symphony's scale and close matching of musical and conceptual details were highly original. The Second Symphony gained popularity in Mahler's lifetime only in the wake of the initially more readily appreciated Third Symphony... This is striking in view of the Third's arguably more arcane extension and intensification of all the salient features of the Second." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.With:Dritte Symphonie in D Moll. Wien Leipzig Paris: Josef Weinberger [PN9], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-231, []i] (blank) pp. The first edition of the full score was published by Weinberger in 1899; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions use the original plates but replace the plate number with the Universal number 950."The Third Symphony arguably takes as its theme the process of Mahler's assimilation while extending the iconoclastic implications of the Second's finale in the half-hour long first movement... The often deliberately realistic vulgarity of the military-band style orchestration of the march highlights the implicitly subversive origins of its main theme (a student song... beloved of anti-Habsburg, pan-Germanists in Mahler's student days) and lends an almost concrete political implication to the 'anarchic' qualities that outraged the work's more consevative critics. The evolutionary programme of the rest of the symphony accommodates the historically successive forms of the minuet and trio and the Beethovenian scherzo in a unique manner... The hushed 'Mitternachtslied' ('O Mensch! Gib Acht!') from Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra proclaims the work's mid-1890s modernity in conclusive fashion (Richard Strauss's tone poem inspired by Nietzsche's book was also completed in 1896)... The subsequent, celebratory setting of 'Es sungen drei Engel einen süsses Gesang', with children imitating bell sounds, provides an effective foil for the extended orchestral Adagio... This concluding celebration of 'divine love', its culminatory peroration in a transfigured D major, was readily admired even by the symphony's detractors - a fact which highlights its tendency towards assimilationist reconciliation (anticipating Mahler's conversion to Roman Catholicism before his return to Vienna in 1897). From this perspective the symphony might be read as an unlikely lexicon of sentiments that sustained the mythology of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the fragile and increasingly fragmented last stage of its history." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.With: Vierte Symphonie in G Dur. Wien: Ludwig Doblinger (Bernhard Herzmansky) [PN 31], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-125, [i] (blank) pp. The first edition was published by Doblinger in 1902; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions use the original plates but replace the plate number with the Universal number U.E. 952."The Fourth Symphony's posthumous reputation as one of Mahler's more approachable, straightforward works does not correspond with its original reception as an exercise in sacrilegious modernity. Mahler's most explicit realization of one of the implications of Wagner's interpretation of the late 18th-century symphony as characterized by 'lofty glee' exposed the ideological work done by the notion of 'classical music' in policing the lines of demarcation between high and low styles. Both are invoked in the second movement (with its scordatura violin representing Freund Hein, 'Death the Fiddler') and surprisingly juxtaposed in the predominantly slow third movement. The 'himmlische Leben' song... ends the 'tetralogy'... of Mahler's first four symphonies by exemplifying the Wunderhorn style of the 1890s." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.Bindings slightly worn, rubbed and bumped. Some browning; offsetting, and other minor defects. 4 volumes. Octavo. Blue quarter leather with marbled boards, dark brown leather label with titling gilt to spine, marbled edges, decorative endpapers. All titles within decorative Jugendstil border printed in sepia, with list of orchestral instruments printed to versos of titles of Volumes 2-4. Annotations in pencil in an unidentified hand to Vol. 1, in German, mostly commenting on tempo markings and dynamics and apparently related to a specific performance/recording.

Shiel, M[atthew] P[hipps]THE LAST MIRACLE . T. Werner Laurie, London 1906 - Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1]-2-320 [note: first leaf is a blank], half title and title leaves printed in green and black, original pictorial black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in orange, olive-green and white, publisher's monogram stamped in orange on rear panel. First edition. Part of a loosely linked trilogy of science fiction novels, the first two being THE LORD OF THE SEA (1901) and THE PURPLE CLOUD (1901). "It is the tale of the final collapse of the traditional churches. It contains some grim scenes, including crucifixions, but it is more political than horrific." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 383. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2028. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 32. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 196. Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, pp. 80-1. Bleiler (1978), p. 179. Reginald 13026. Morse, The Works of M. P. Shiel Updated (1980), p. 161. Small clipping (short review of the book) pasted to half title verso with light offsetting on title page. Light scuffing to cloth, a very good copy with bright cover stamping and interior remarkably free of the foxing found in most copies of this book. A superior copy of one of Shiel's scarcer titles rarely found in nice condition. (#139995) [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Charles H. OlinVentriloquism (Ventriloquist Dummy Magic) 1906 w/ rare dust jacket! Rare and early book on Ventriloquism (part of the larger category of Magic and Illusion Performance) in Scarce Dust Jacket! This is the first dust jacket on a book I have seen from before 1910 outside of a book fair or a prestigious collection.Ventriloquism by Charles H. Olin Hardcover First Edition - First Printing Penn Publishing 1906. Contains several photographs, diagrams, and even an example of a dialogue between the ventriloquist and two dummies! Near Fine+ in Very Good+ Dustjacket! A very tight copy, most pages very clean, in scarce dust jacket! You just don't find books with their original dust jackets from prior to 1910 very often! Essentially complete, very slight edgewear to the top of spine and top edge, otherwise complete and intact! I could find very few examples of this book on WorldCat, and none for sale of the first edition, although some later edition copies are available. However, this may be the ONLY copy surviving in its original dust jacket, or at least one of very few. Probably the only which will be available in the next several years. If this doesn't sell here, I may take it to an antiquarian bookseller who will probably ask much more. Don't hesitate.All modern books with dust jackets come with dust jacket covers.Book will be separately bubble-wrapped and placed in either a flat-rate mailer or a box.

MAHLER, Gustav 1860-1911Erste Symphonie in D dur; Zweite Symphonie in C Moll; Dritte Symphonie in D Moll; Vierte Symphonie in G Dur. [Study scores] Wien... Leipzig: Universal-Edition [PN 6], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-171, [1] (blank) pp.The first edition of the full score was published by Weinberger in Vienna in 1898; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions replace Weinberger's plate number with the Universal number U.E. 2931. "The four-movement version in which the symphony is now known remains rich in imagery and technical diversity. In the opening bars Mahler uses the extraordinary orchestral effect of a unison A over seven octaves in the strings, all except the lowest basses playing harmonics, 'Wie ein Naturlaut' ('Like a sound of nature'); a kind of virtual-reality effect is created by three offstage trumpets (the first two directed to be placed initially 'in the very far distance'), as if to stress a physical separation between the platform orchestra as Nature, with its explicitly marked cuckoo calls, and the realm of human activity. Mahler characteristically consigned to the silence between the second and third movements the disillusioning dramatic catastrophe, figured as the tragic love experience which separates the symphony's protagonist, like the wayfarer of the song cycle, from the comforts of youthful illusion. What follows is the most experimental of the symphony's four movements: an ironic funeral march based on the children's round Bruder Martin ('Frère Jacques'), whose trio-like interpolations include one of Mahler's most explicit evocations of the Bohemian street musicians encountered in his childhood; the pungent, chromatically inflected orchestral timbre is appropriately enriched (at a point marked 'Mit Parodie') with a percussion part for a bass drum with Turkish cymbals attached, to be played by a single musician. Only in the symphony's finale does Mahler mobilize all the resources of the post-Wagnerian orchestra in a large-scale dramatic narrative. Daemonic forces and heroic aspiration are colourfully symbolized in a movement whose expressive poles are represented on the one hand by the delicately-nuanced 'Gesang' theme that functions as a contrasting second subject, on the other by a triumphal march, whose final statement follows a cyclic flashback to the opening of the first movement (on whose falling 4ths it is based). Already, at the end of this work, Mahler was experimenting with ways of intensifying available techniques for creating an overwhelming volume of sound. He suggests in the score that the expanded horn section (he seems to have envisaged at least nine players at this point) should stand up, bells raised, in order to surmount the rest of the orchestral tutti with their peroration." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.With:Zweite Symphonie in C Moll... (nur für Privatgebrauch). Wien... Leipzig: Universal-Edition [without PN], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-209, [i] (blank) pp. With "In die 'Universal-Edition' aufgenommen" to title followed by listing of agents in Budapest, Pozsony (Bratislava), Leipzig, and London. The first edition of the full score was published by Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1899; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions use the original plates but add the plate number U.E. 2933."A symphonic cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra in which the progression from tension to resolution is reinterpreted as a narrative of apocalypse and subsequent redemption (the 'Resurrection' of the symphony's subsequent unofficial subtitle). Judeo-Christian mythology supplied certain of its details, but reinterpreted and even subverted in a striking manner. If Mahler's programmatic justification of his generically diverse suite of movements extended established 19th-century precedents, the symphony's scale and close matching of musical and conceptual details were highly original. The Second Symphony gained popularity in Mahler's lifetime only in the wake of the initially more readily appreciated Third Symphony... This is striking in view of the Third's arguably more arcane extension and intensification of all the salient features of the Second." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.With:Dritte Symphonie in D Moll. Wien Leipzig Paris: Josef Weinberger [PN9], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-231, []i] (blank) pp. The first edition of the full score was published by Weinberger in 1899; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions use the original plates but replace the plate number with the Universal number 950."The Third Symphony arguably takes as its theme the process of Mahler's assimilation while extending the iconoclastic implications of the Second's finale in the half-hour long first movement... The often deliberately realistic vulgarity of the military-band style orchestration of the march highlights the implicitly subversive origins of its main theme (a student song... beloved of anti-Habsburg, pan-Germanists in Mahler's student days) and lends an almost concrete political implication to the 'anarchic' qualities that outraged the work's more consevative critics. The evolutionary programme of the rest of the symphony accommodates the historically successive forms of the minuet and trio and the Beethovenian scherzo in a unique manner... The hushed 'Mitternachtslied' ('O Mensch! Gib Acht!') from Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra proclaims the work's mid-1890s modernity in conclusive fashion (Richard Strauss's tone poem inspired by Nietzsche's book was also completed in 1896)... The subsequent, celebratory setting of 'Es sungen drei Engel einen süsses Gesang', with children imitating bell sounds, provides an effective foil for the extended orchestral Adagio... This concluding celebration of 'divine love', its culminatory peroration in a transfigured D major, was readily admired even by the symphony's detractors - a fact which highlights its tendency towards assimilationist reconciliation (anticipating Mahler's conversion to Roman Catholicism before his return to Vienna in 1897). From this perspective the symphony might be read as an unlikely lexicon of sentiments that sustained the mythology of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the fragile and increasingly fragmented last stage of its history." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.With: Vierte Symphonie in G Dur. Wien: Ludwig Doblinger (Bernhard Herzmansky) [PN 31], [after 1906]. 1f. (title), 3-125, [i] (blank) pp. The first edition was published by Doblinger in 1902; Universal acquired the rights in 1906. Later editions use the original plates but replace the plate number with the Universal number U.E. 952."The Fourth Symphony's posthumous reputation as one of Mahler's more approachable, straightforward works does not correspond with its original reception as an exercise in sacrilegious modernity. Mahler's most explicit realization of one of the implications of Wagner's interpretation of the late 18th-century symphony as characterized by 'lofty glee' exposed the ideological work done by the notion of 'classical music' in policing the lines of demarcation between high and low styles. Both are invoked in the second movement (with its scordatura violin representing Freund Hein, 'Death the Fiddler') and surprisingly juxtaposed in the predominantly slow third movement. The 'himmlische Leben' song... ends the 'tetralogy'... of Mahler's first four symphonies by exemplifying the Wunderhorn style of the 1890s." Peter Franklin in Grove Music Online.Bindings slightly worn, rubbed and bumped. Some browning; offsetting, and other minor defects. 4 volumes. Octavo. Blue quarter leather with marbled boards, dark brown leather label with titling gilt to spine, marbled edges, decorative endpapers. All titles within decorative Jugendstil border printed in sepia, with list of orchestral instruments printed to versos of titles of Volumes 2-4. Annotations in pencil in an unidentified hand to Vol. 1, in German, mostly commenting on tempo markings and dynamics and apparently related to a specific performance/recording.

[Photo Album]: San Francisco Earthquake and Seattle World's Fair San Francisco and Seattle. 1906-1909. Oblong small octavo. Measuring 6" x 7". Black textured leather over stiff paper boards. Contains 128 sepia-toned or black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 4" x 5", some with captions. Very good album with rubbing and edgewear with near fine photographs.A photo album beginning with a trip to the Seattle World's Fair in 1909 through 1914. The photographs are not in chronological order. The fair's theme was Alaska--Yukon--Pacific Exposition and was originally set to take place in 1907 for the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush but was pushed back to 1909 due to a conflict with the Jamestown Exposition. The photos begin with snapshots around the city and of the coast. There are images of Seattle harbor with sailboats in the distance as well as large cruise ships and the wooded areas surrounding the city. The fair also included exhibits from Canada and Japan, as well as Alaskan Native American tribes and the Igorrotes from the Philippines. The Igorrotes are seen in snapshots participating in tribal dances, climbing trees, and holding spears. One of these photos shows a young Igorrotes boy, with the shadow of a bowler hat-wearing fairgoer at his feet. Other photos show candids of fashionably dressed revelers walking through the exhibit as well as photos of the architecture of the fair and scenes from exhibits including the maple ice cream stand in the Canadian section. Later photos show men hiking in the Washington wilderness as well as boating and shooting. Photos from 1910 show a trip to "the seaside" with images of men and women posed on a beach and in a large boat. Towards the end of the album the photographs show the results of an earthquake which appears to be the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. These photos show ruined buildings and people walking around the rubble. One photo shows San Francisco Victorian homes with blown out windows. The final pages show the travelers posed for candids and portraits while hiking and on picnics in Northern California and Washington and includes a photo strip images of a couple. A wonderful collection of well-composed travel photographs featuring events in Seattle and San Francisco. .

Booker T. WashingtonPutting The Most Into Life Thomas L. Crowell Co, New York, New York, 1906 - 1906 Thomas L. Crowell FIRST Edition/First printing of this slim volume. With an EXTRAORDINARY & RARE INSCRIPTION & SIGNATURE: "To my friend, Alex Pool, on his graduation from Hopkinsville Public School, B.T.W. 1906" In GOOD condition alas with water damage along the top boards with seeping stains along the tops but NOT affecting any text. The fontispiece has Washington's picture with the tissue paper present. The gilt edges on the top are bright as well. One of a kind! [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

History of the Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society. Edinburgh: Privatley Printed, printed by David MacDonald 1906. - 54pp. Illustrated from photographs and drawings of members, past champions, etc., including a portrait drawing of Old Tom Morris with caption "who laid out Barnton." In back, with List of Office-Bearers of the Society from 1773 to 1906. Original wrappers are worn and there are two holes in the front wrapper where it was possibly hung in a club house, pages are not holed. This book is exceptionally rare and if it does surface then usually for £2500/£4500 Almost Fine, as good a copy of this very rare book we have seen, gilt [Attributes: First Edition]

LAVROV, PetrZnanie i Revoliutsiia [Knowledge and Revolution] Molodaia Rossiia, Moscow 1906 - Extremely rare First Edition. 31pp (1). 14.5 x 21cm. Original printed wrappers. Minor toning to paper stock, very minor pen markings, rubbing with some unfortunate minor loss along edges. Light even toning and soiling to wrappers, rubbing along spine, shallow creasing, unfortunate rubbing to edges. The first appearance of Lavrov's work is a truly interesting piece of Socialist propaganda. Knowing full well that the Russian people were not yet ready for a Socialist revolution he addresses the necessity of preparing the Russian people to Socialist conclusions through propaganda. Social solidarity was key, he argued, as Revolution was only possibly when the majority of the population was aware of its necessity. A brilliant and rare little thing which despite an outward appearance of being well-­loved is bright and tight on the inside. Only the microform exists in the US at Harvard. More pictures on request. [Attributes: First Edition; Soft Cover]

Sinclair, UptonJungle Jungle Pub, New York 1906 - Very good condition for it's advanced age. Clean text, few breaks in the spine. Some shadowing on the FEP and BEP. There is no "sustainers edition" label and there is unbroken type on the c.p. Tape repair on page 41. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

DUSEFine Signed Portrait Photograph, (Eleonora, 1858-1924, Italian Actress) 1906 - showing her seated head and shoulders, in profile to the viewer's right, wearing a light muslin shawl over an off-the-shoulder dress, relaxed but thoughtful, signed and inscribed on the mount in Italian to Mathilde LINDPAINTNER (1851-1942, née Martins de Almeida, wife, 1879, of the Bavarian Oberstleutnant Ludwig Lindpaintner, 1849-1896), "with remembrances and good wishes", in a circular print 6 inches diameter on card mount 19" x 13¾", Florence, 7th September small round blot in blank upper portion of mount Eleonora Duse appears to have chosen this photograph, not to display any drama, but as an expression of herself in repose - in contrast to her acting, in which she aimed to let the character, and only the character, display emotion. Mathilde Lindpaintner was half Portuguese, half Bavarian - her mother's father was Prince Karl, second son of King Maximilian I of Bavaria. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

(BURBANK, Luther) VAN NORDERN, CharlesJesus: An Unfinished Portrait New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company. 1906. Second edition. Octavo. 295pp. Dark red cloth gilt. Spine a little sunned, else near fine. Presented by Luther Burbank to W. Atlee Burpee and Inscribed by him on a card: "To my esteemed friend W. Atlee Burpee from Luther Burbank. Santa Rosa, Cal. Oct. 25th 1909." A very nice association between two of the most prominent pioneer botanists and horticulturists of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Burbank, was an important California botanist who developed over 800 different strains of plant life; Burpee founded the Burpee Seed Company in 1876. Although no longer under family control, the company still exists today. A few pencil notes in Burpee's hand on the rear pastedown, and a few passages scored by him in the text. .

Joseph ChadwickMEN OF MARK IN THE WORLD OF SPORT IN NEW ZEALAND Brett Publishing, New Zealand - Very old and exceedinly rare book on turf racing's history in New Zealand.There is no title page and none listed,I would guess printed aroynd 1906.Printed on gloss paper,full of photographic plates and advertisements of the day,eg. deer stalking,trout fishing,thermal wonderland,Charles Bailey boat and schooner builder.The book begins with words on TRADUCER and MUSKET,them Mr.Henry Redwood,father of New Zealand turf.The book is sound,tight,clean and tidy.The first 2 prelims are glued together,title page is missing,then preface,index and page 1 etc as printed.Cover is navy blue cloth with cold titles to spine and front cover.Boards are bevelled.Rear cover has gold pictorial ships with gold advertising for the steamer SS Ngapuhi for summer cruises and A.Hatricks & Co. Wanganui River tourist steamer Co.Looks like the spine has been rebacked at some stage,board edges show some wear.Nice solid copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

VariousThe Shanachie (Volumes I and II) Dublin: Maunsel and Company 1906 - Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1906) to Vol. 2, No 6 (Summer 1907), comprising six issues in all, a complete run, bound in two volumes by the publisher. (Decorated cover designed by Beatrice Elvery [Lady Glenavy]). Octavos. Volume 1 binding good, with edge wear and darkening to the spine. Volume 2 binding poor, with loss to spine cloth and darkening to the spine. The Shanachie was published by Dublin&#146;s Maunsel and Company. Founded in 1905 by Joseph Maunsel Hone, Stephen Gwynn, and George Roberts, the company played an important part in the Irish Literary Revival, publishing first or important works by many of the most celebrated Irish writers of the early 20th century. The Shanachie, edited by J. M. Hone, was its first and only entry into the periodical business. In its six-issue run, the magazine published prose contributions by such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw, Lord Dunsany, W. B. Yeats, Padraic Colum, Lady Gregory, A. E. (George William Russell), J. M. Synge and others. Art was contributed by Jack Yeats, Hugh Thomson, William Orpen and others. Despite its distinguished content, the quarterly was unprofitable was soon discontinued. Complete runs are relatively scarce. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Bradley, WillPeter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1906. (1906). Illustrated boards with cloth spine,corners worn, head of spine rubbed, small closed tear to FFEP, gift inscription, a few finger marks but overall clean. Full color frontis, full page lithographs in limited color as well as color textual elements and chapter heads. Rare in this condition.. First Edition. Very Good. 4to.

[China; Western Australia] Andrew, John editorFirst issue of Hankow Daily News [with] Supplement Hankow China, 1906. Very good condition. The first issue of the English language newspaper published March 15, 1906, for the important treaty port of Hankow, situated on the Yangtze River. With contemporary note at upper left margin, "My dear Margaret, keep this paper as a memo. It is the first ever published here, Gertrude".Many advertisements including an importer of West Australian wood, with a separate large broadside listing sailings and advertisements for steamship lines.&#11;&#11;The newspaper was founded by John Andrew, a well known merchant on the China coast, and Otto Marx. It famously covered the First Chinese Revolution of October 1911. This first issue of the newspaper was published during the foreign concessions period of the city's history. In a notice to subscribers, the editor explains the delays in publishing the first issue, including the fact that new type and a large printing press had to be ordered from England. He promises that the newspaper will include the latest Reuters telegrams, including the French and German ones. The paper will also collect news from "native sources in the Yangtze Valley" including missionaries. Special attention will be given to shipping, with lists of sailings printed. The paper advocates one international settlement under one municipal council, but doubts the likelihood of its happening. At the time there were 5 foreign concessions: Britain (1862 - 1917), France (est. 1886), Russia (est. 1886), Germany (est. 1895) and Japan (est. 1898). &#11;&#11;The front page with many advertisements, including quite prominently Elie Bouchard, at the Wan Shun Timber Depot, Importers of Western Australian hardwood, karri and jarrah: the Astor House Hotel, storekeeper and wine merchant in the French Concession, E. L. Mondon Ltd; Singer Sewing Machine Co. Second page with advertisements for banks and insurance companies, auctions and help wanted. The back page includes the Terminus Hotel, F. Venturi importer of Italian products; Pharmacie Centrale (French concession); Albert Roeper "Artistic House Painter" with the ad copy in German, French and English; ads for French Roederer cognac and champagne; tailors; the Hankow Printing Office; a German engine & iron works; and the closing date for mails under the Chinese Imperial Post Office.&#11;&#11;With the broadside Supplement printed on the same date, listing the sailings in and out of the port along with vessels entering customs house and vessels cleared customs house.Advertisements for a variety of steamship lines including the Indo China Steam Navigation Co.; Canadian Pacific Co. Royal Mail Line; and Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.&#11;&#11;Folio, 15 1/2 x 21 1/2". 4pp. Original fold at center with some small cracks not affecting the text; a bit toned above the fold front page. The broadside Supplement bright and clean. Not recorded in OCLC.

Upton SinclairThe Jungle New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1906. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1906 1st state of the 1st edition. Clean and bright and VG in its original decorative green cloth, with bright, strong lettering to the front panel and lightly-faded and rubbed lettering along the spine. Thick octavo, 413 pgs.

Kipling, RudyardPuck of Pook's Hill London: Macmillan and Co., 1906 First edition. Near fine in publisher's original red cloth with some fading to the spine and darkening of the boards, and a former owner's bookplate.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1906 - 1906 Wisden Original Hardback 1906. This 1906 Wisden Publisher s hardback is in near fine condition - as good a copy as I have seen. The front and rear board are in immaculate condition with gilt bright to the front board. The spine is clean and strong and unmarked and the gilt is bright. The gilt to both the front board and the spine is original. The front and rear yellow pastedowns, title page and rear advertisement page are in excellent condition - clean and unmarked and both hinges are strong. The contents are in immaculate condition together with the photographic plate - clean, original, unmarked. The books has an unopened feel to it. A brilliant copy. We hope to list over the next few weeks a number of fine pre-war publisher s hardbacks including issues for the 1890 s and the First World War and several years from the 1860 s and 1870 s all in fine condition. Please keep a look out for them.

Baedeker, KarlPALESTINE AND SYRIA With the Chief Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia. Handbook for Travellers Karl Baedeker, Leipzig 1906 - Edges and pages a bit tanned. Light rubbing to spine heels ; With 20 maps, 52 plans, and a panorama of Jerusalem. Very rare note bound-in before title page: "The excessive zeal of the Turkish censorship sometimes even extends to the confiscation of guide-books. The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port". The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port". The traveller is therefore advised to place this volume in his pocket before crossing the Turkish frontier or entering a Turkish port".; 16mo - 6" to 7" tall; 436 pages [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Ball, James DyerThe Celestial and His Religions: or the Religious Aspect in China. Being a Series of Lectures on the Religions of the Chinese Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, 1906. First edition. Stiff boards. Collection of essays on all religions in China including chapters on Mohamadism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Judaism, and various types of Christianity. Octavo. Pagination ,(iv), (4), 240, xviii. Appendices and index. Bound in the original publisher's quarter red cloth and printed boards. Spine sunned with small chip front hinge starting.

China; Western Australia] Andrew, John editorFirst issue of Hankow Daily News [with] Supplement Hankow China 1906 - The first issue of the English language newspaper published March 15, 1906, for the important treaty port of Hankow, situated on the Yangtze River. With contemporary note at upper left margin, "My dear Margaret, keep this paper as a memo. It is the first ever published here, Gertrude". Many advertisements including an importer of West Australian wood, with a separate large broadside listing sailings and advertisements for steamship lines.The newspaper was founded by John Andrew, a well known merchant on the China coast, and Otto Marx. It famously covered the First Chinese Revolution of October 1911. This first issue of the newspaper was published during the foreign concessions period of the city's history. In a notice to subscribers, the editor explains the delays in publishing the first issue, including the fact that new type and a large printing press had to be ordered from England. He promises that the newspaper will include the latest Reuters telegrams, including the French and German ones. The paper will also collect news from "native sources in the Yangtze Valley" including missionaries. Special attention will be given to shipping, with lists of sailings printed. The paper advocates one international settlement under one municipal council, but doubts the likelihood of its happening. At the time there were 5 foreign concessions: Britain (1862 - 1917), France (est. 1886), Russia (est. 1886), Germany (est. 1895) and Japan (est. 1898). The front page with many advertisements, including quite prominently Elie Bouchard, at the Wan Shun Timber Depot, Importers of Western Australian hardwood, karri and jarrah: the Astor House Hotel, storekeeper and wine merchant in the French Concession, E. L. Mondon Ltd; Singer Sewing Machine Co. Second page with advertisements for banks and insurance companies, auctions and help wanted. The back page includes the Terminus Hotel, F. Venturi importer of Italian products; Pharmacie Centrale (French concession); Albert Roeper "Artistic House Painter" with the ad copy in German, French and English; ads for French Roederer cognac and champagne; tailors; the Hankow Printing Office; a German engine & iron works; and the closing date for mails under the Chinese Imperial Post Office.With the broadside Supplement printed on the same date, listing the sailings in and out of the port along with vessels entering customs house and vessels cleared customs house. Advertisements for a variety of steamship lines including the Indo China Steam Navigation Co.; Canadian Pacific Co. Royal Mail Line; and Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.Folio, 15 1/2 x 21 1/2". 4pp. Original fold at center with some small cracks not affecting the text; a bit toned above the fold front page. The broadside Supplement bright and clean. Not recorded in OCLC.

GEORGE H. WALKER & CO.Automobile Map of Massachusetts Cape Cod Section Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co., 1906. unbound. Map. Colored lithograph. Sheet measures 30.5" x 29.5". This beautiful 1906 pocket map of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard from 1906 was issued by George H. Walker & Co. Specifically designed for the automobile traveler, it identifies state roads, good automobile routes, electric railways and other routes. Covers from Bridge Water to Nantucket Island. Beautifully detailed, it also notes several towns, cities, bays, islands, ferry routes, lighthouses, shoals, banks, and several other topographical features. The map is in good condition with minor foxing. The map is dissected into 21 panels and backed with linen. Cover includes manuscript text. A list of other maps by Geo. H. Walker & Co. is also included on the back cover.<br><br>George H. Walker & Company was a publishing firm in Boston in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. George H. Walker and Oscar W. Walker started the firm in 1880 and were known for travel maps of New England. This is a beautiful example of their work.

L. Frank Baum) Laura BancroftSUGAR-LOAF MOUNTAIN The Reilly & Britton Co., Chicago 1906 - Oz; Frank Baumn; Frank Lloyd Wright; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 64 pages; Pseudonym of L. Frank Baum of "Wizard of Oz" fame. Illustrated with 15 color plates, a color-illustrated title page, and a color illustrated front cover, all executed by Maginel Wright Enright. This is #5 in the 6-volume "Twinkle Tales" series. This is the scarcest title in the series. (1906) , 2nd printing, in illustrated boards with blank end papers and typeset tp as noted in Binevenue p288. This series of fairy tales was written for children not old enough for the OZ series. Contents tight w/ only very slight scattered soil. Corners rubbed, spine is missing. Illustrated by Frank Lloyd Wright's sister. In a letter to his editior Baum stated that he had always considered these among his best tales [Binevenue]. ; 0 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Ferguson, JohnBibliotheca Chemica: A Catalogue of the Alchemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Books in the Collection of the Late James Young of Kelly and Durris, Esq. 2 Volumes James Maclehose and Sons, Glascow, Scotland 1906 - First Publisher. A small spot on the cover of volume 2. This is a nice set. NOT an ex-libris, No marks, inscriptions, or odors of any kind. All my books have multiple photos on Abebooks site. Sometimes it takes 24-48 hours for them to appear with listing. Check back. Email for list of Bibliographies sited, more photos of the book or further condition details. Photos: B/W (Frontispiece). Illustrator: Charles Walker. Hardcover. Standard reference containing about 2,500 entries, many of which are annotated. Contains mostly older, and rarer works. Waite, for example is absent. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

[Photo Album]: San Francisco Earthquake and Seattle World's Fair San Francisco and Seattle. 1906-1909. Oblong small octavo. Measuring 6" x 7". Black textured leather over stiff paper boards. Contains 128 sepia-toned or black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 4" x 5", some with captions. Very good album with rubbing and edgewear with near fine photographs.A photo album beginning with a trip to the Seattle World's Fair in 1909 through 1914. The photographs are not in chronological order. The fair's theme was Alaska--Yukon--Pacific Exposition and was originally set to take place in 1907 for the 10th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush but was pushed back to 1909 due to a conflict with the Jamestown Exposition. The photos begin with snapshots around the city and of the coast. There are images of Seattle harbor with sailboats in the distance as well as large cruise ships and the wooded areas surrounding the city. The fair also included exhibits from Canada and Japan, as well as Alaskan Native American tribes and the Igorrotes from the Philippines. The Igorrotes are seen in snapshots participating in tribal dances, climbing trees, and holding spears. One of these photos shows a young Igorrotes boy, with the shadow of a bowler hat-wearing fairgoer at his feet. Other photos show candids of fashionably dressed revelers walking through the exhibit as well as photos of the architecture of the fair and scenes from exhibits including the maple ice cream stand in the Canadian section. Later photos show men hiking in the Washington wilderness as well as boating and shooting. Photos from 1910 show a trip to "the seaside" with images of men and women posed on a beach and in a large boat. Towards the end of the album the photographs show the results of an earthquake which appears to be the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. These photos show ruined buildings and people walking around the rubble. One photo shows San Francisco Victorian homes with blown out windows. The final pages show the travelers posed for candids and portraits while hiking and on picnics in Northern California and Washington and includes a photo strip images of a couple. A wonderful collection of well-composed travel photographs featuring events in Seattle and San Francisco. .

WILLIAMS JACKSON A. V. DUTT Romesh ChunderHistory of India 1906. First Edition . (INDIA) WILLIAMS JACKSON, Abraham Valentine, editor. History of India. London: Grolier Society, (1906-07). Nine volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary full red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $3000.Â“Baroda Edition,Â” with five hand-colored photogravure frontispieces, and richly illustrated with a wealth of photogravure and photographic plates, text drawings, and etchings.The collection, authored by recognized authorities on Indian history, traces the countryÂ’s development Â“from the dim ages of the pastÂ” to the early 20th century. Contents include Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century, B.C. by Romesh Chunder Dutt; Volume II: From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great, by Vincent A. Smith; Volume III: Medieval India from the Mohammedan Conquest to the Reign of Akbar the Great, by Stanley Lane-Poole; Volume IV: From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Mogul Empire, also by Lane-Poole; Volume V: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its own Historians, by Henry Miers Elliot; Volume VI: From the First European Settlements to the Founding of the English East India Company, by William Wilson Hunter; Volume VII: The European Struggle for Indian Supremacy in the 17th Century, also by Hunter; Volume VIII: From the Close of the 17th Century to the Present Time, by Alfred Comyn Lyall; and Volume IX: Historic Accounts of India by Foreign Travellers, Classic, Oriental and Occidental, by Williams Jackson. With hand-colored frontispieces in Volumes I, III, V, VII, and IX. Volume VII mislabeled on spine as Volume II. Owner name in gilt to spine foot of each volume.Two leaves with expert repairs to closed tears. Light rubbing and soiling to contemporary morocco; spines evenly toned. Expert repairs to several joints. A beautiful set.

CHURCHILL, WinstonConiston Macmillan Co New York 1906 - First Edition. Illustrated by Florence Scovel Shinn. Popular historical novel in its day, the story of mid-19th Century New England politics and a man's quest for power and his Tammany like grip on state and commerce. Only a woman knows the secret to his undoing. Very scarce in original printed dustjacket. Near Fine in attractive Very Good dustjacket, top spine end with few centimeter sized chip, closed tear at top rear panel. 0.0 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]